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What's the Best Album of 2003?
David Bowie - Reality
David Byrne - Lead Us Not into Temptation
Nick Cave - Nocturama
King Crimnson - The Power to Believe
Laika - Wherever I am I am What is Missing
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Pig Lib
The New Folk Implosion - Self-Titled
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
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What was the best electronic album of 2003?
Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Jazzanova Remixed
Bill Laswell - Sacred Systems: Book of Exit: Dub Chamber 4
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz
The Orb - Bicycles & Tricycles
Tosca - Dehli 9
Tricky - Vulnerable

What was the worst album of 2003?
Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
Frank Black & the Catholics - Show Me Your Tears
Harry Connick, Jr. - Harry For the Holidays
Hilary Duff - Metamorphosis
Jennifer Lopez - The Real Me
Madonna - American Life
Ryan Malcolm - Home
Britney Spears - In the Zone
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Zwan - Mary, Star of the Sea

What's the Best Film of 2003?
Bad Santa
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Finding Nemo
Identity
Intolerable Cruelty
Kill Bill: Volume One
Lost in Translation
Max
28 Days Later
Willard

What was the best sequel/prequel of 2003?
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Final Destination 2
Freddy Versus Jason
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Return of the King
Scary Movie 3
Terminator 3
X-Men 2

What was the worst sequel/prequel of 2003?
American Wedding
Bad Boys II
Charlies Angels: Full Throttle
Dumb and Dumberer
Freddy Vs. Jason
Legally Blonde 2
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Scary Movie 3
Tomb Raider 2

What was the worst film of 2003?
Brown Bunny
Bruce Almighty
The Cat in the Hat
Darkness Falls
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Gigli
Head of State
Hollywood Homicide
House of the Dead
My Boss' Daughter

What was the best Nihilist Glee Club comic of 2003?
Nasty Buggers
The Astrobasters: Brutality at Yadda Blather Blue Version 1.2
Night-Guy: The Point of the Finger Episode Three
Cosma Venus: Dead Letters
Sigerson Crumb: Festering Stench

What was the best book of 2003?
Callahan's Con - Spider Robinson
Dude, Where's My Country? - Michael Moore
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century - Hunter S. Thompson
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franklin
Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
The slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
Villa Incognito - Tom Robbins
When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden - Bill Maher

What was the worst book of 2003?
Jessica Lynch: I'm a Soldier, Too - Rick Bragg
A National Party No More - Zell Miller
Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait - Midge Decter
Winning Modern Wars - Wesley Clark
Breaking the Real Axis of Evil - Mark Palmer
Mr. Peabody's Apples - Madonna/Loren Long
Three - Ted Dekker
Lost Light - Michael Connelly
Catch the Moon - Diana Dempsey
The Domino Effect - David Bishop

What was the best game of 2003?
Bloodrayne
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Freedom Force
Splinter Cell
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Rainbox Six 3
Armed and Dangerous
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What was the worst game of 2003
Enter the Matrix
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis
Batman: Dark tomorrow
MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch
Dino Crisis 3
Star Wars: Obi Won
Charlie's Angels
Robocop
Patriotic Pinball

What was the best event of 2003
Bush falls off a Segway
Michael Moore at the Oscars
US mine-sweeping dolphin goes AWOL
Charleton Heston retires in a blaze of senility
Librarians rebel against FBI anti-privacy laws
Ontario Tories removed from office
The Star Wars Kid
Scientists discover how to generate electricity with water
Rush Limbaugh resigns
Sadam Hussein probbed for parasites

What was the most tragic event of 2003?
Arnold elected governor
US Invasion of Iraq
The making of Saving Jessica Lynch
Columbia space shuttle blows up
SARS outbreak
Tornado onslaught
Tommy Chong arrested
Massive blackout
John Ritter and Johnny Cash die on the same day
Bush and co. total disregard for privacy, due process, fairness, rights and freedoms